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Product Announcement, LONO Arcade to USB Controller
jtslade:
Connivence is a good selling point, it's a big thing given that few arcade enthusiasts have unlimited time to spend on wiring and crimping and soldering.
Hid response time in the forum is good, another big plus.
Yes Andy is awesome and has great products so the benchmark is very high but having healthy competition in this market is a good thing.
The problem that faces every enthusiast here is the drive to get as close an arcade feel as possible on as many types of games as possible is a big challenge, with multiple vendors it makes for better selection and at different price points.
Groovy game gear has it's positioning niche, Ultimarc has it's space as well. There is still a good bit of open marketplace
EVEGames:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on May 15, 2011, 07:04:06 pm ---Yawn.
You have to have guts to come into a overly saturated market with a device like that.
At a price that is too much for a device I could pick up from Randy for Andy for much less and get a lot more, especially in this tough economy.
Good Luck! ::)
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Armi,
Only a potent mix of jealousy and ignorance could combine to produce a reaction like that. "Overly Saturated Market"?!?! In what alternate universe is there an overly saturated market for arcade parts? This new product of yours is obviously not a clone of ANY product that Randy or Andy already provide, and I defy ark_ader to prove otherwise or admit that was a foolish statement.
I can't wait to see what you come out with next. Keep up the good work!
-EVEGames
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: EVEGames on May 16, 2011, 01:57:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on May 15, 2011, 07:04:06 pm ---Yawn.
You have to have guts to come into a overly saturated market with a device like that.
At a price that is too much for a device I could pick up from Randy for Andy for much less and get a lot more, especially in this tough economy.
Good Luck! ::)
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Armi,
Only a potent mix of jealousy and ignorance could combine to produce a reaction like that. "Overly Saturated Market"?!?! In what alternate universe is there an overly saturated market for arcade parts? This new product of yours is obviously not a clone of ANY product that Randy or Andy already provide, and I defy ark_ader to prove otherwise or admit that was a foolish statement.
I can't wait to see what you come out with next. Keep up the good work!
-EVEGames
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CheffoJeffo:
While I almost never agree with ark and definitely like the way that Bryan donates a portion of sales to charities (including KLOV and this place!), I wouldn't dismiss ark's statement out of hand.
There are a bunch of encoder options out there and a number of other options have come and gone in the past few years -- the market *is* pretty damned saturated, except, I think, at the low end where cheap controller hacking is already a decent option.
The question that should be answered is what the advantages of the various options are. Just recognizing that they aren't clones of each other doesn't create any compelling reason to buy any of them and, to my mind, makes EVEGames' statement the most foolish, but not the most obnoxious (that honour goes to ark), statement in the thread.
It is nice to see new options, but without clear and obvious advantages to the consumer, I can't get too excited.
One thing that I will recommend is for Bryan to get some pics of those wiring harnesses up in this thread and on the site. Folks like me or on KLOV may love cutting, crimping and soldering, but lots of people don't and that, in itself, may be the biggest advantage.
:cheers:
armi0024:
I really appreciate people taking the time to think about this and contribute their thoughts. Cheffo made a great suggestion, we are waiting for our harnesses to arrive... A great deal of thought went into trying to lay this out so it made sense. For the harnesses, we wanted to make sure that it was easy to wire up. There are 18 connections per joystick and once you get out to the end of the run, knowing if you have button1 or button 10 can be tough unless you have a clear system. So what we did was to have 10 colors per 20 pin connector
with two different colors of insulation at the end. For example, Red Clear is button 1, Red Blue is button 10.
The end result is harness that allows for a very wide range of connections, but is relatively simple to use:
The harnesses are 18" and 30" long to allow for larger control panels and come with a simple .100 female header so that you can just plug them in.
If people want a non-harness, no pin header, version so that you have to do all the soldering yourself.... let me know, I might be able to arrange for a batch like that.